The Social Network: the kink meme!

It's Complicated: But sexy!

Okay, I'm a little new at this so sorry if I mess this up first go. Because it's been 5 months since the last round even though we haven't been busy. I figured I might as well earn my keep and try to get this place alive again...

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Hi, right now everyone is working on some changes so hold on new things are coming. In an effort to kick this place back into action, we're doing round 9. In a few days, we'll be setting up a fills post that hopefully will work directly for archiving and an overflow post. Also we'll be doing a friending meme at tsn_km_gather so be looking out for that. I know some of the other mods have plans of their own which will be coming soon.

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[FILL] eduardo is infinitely better than a teddy bear

Mark turns around from his desk chair to see Eduardo standing by his bed, and he’s holding a teddy bear by one foot. Mark’s heart skips a beat.

“Where did you find that? Were you going through my stuff again?”

“No, Mark, for God’s sakes, it was on the floor by your bed. Is it – is it yours?”

“No,” replies Mark, stubborn. An amused Eduardo just cocks a single eyebrow.

“It’s not yours? Maybe it’s Dustin’s, but what would Dustin have been doing in your bed?”

“I—“ Mark bites his lip, frowns. “I don’t know, but I’ve never seen it before.”

Eduardo carries the teddy bear by a scruff of the synthetic fur, walks over to the trash can in the corner of the room. Mark stares.

“What are you doing?”

“If it’s not yours, and it’s not Dustin’s and it’s not Chris’, it doesn’t belong here, does it?”

Mark stares, dumbly.

Eduardo drops the teddy bear into the trash can.

“Wait – no!” Mark’s up in a flash, racing across the room to pluck it out. He wraps both arms around it, protectively, not even caring that it just lied among old tuna cans and yogurt cups and beer bottles. “I mean – why would you throw it out?”

“So it is yours?” Wardo’s grinning, and Mark curls his toes in the fuzz of the carpet, wishing the earth would be kind enough to just swallow him whole. “You sleep with a teddy bear, Mark? Hey…” Eduardo steps up to him, lifts Mark’s chin and looking down at his frowning face. Mark looks petrified; he’s never felt so humiliated, and he feels so young, clutching a stuffed animal to his chest, and it’s stupid that he still has to sleep with something, that he can’t just let it go. He just can’t sleep when he feels like he’s alone; he’s only just gotten over his fear of the dark, okay, he needs something to hold.

Eduardo chuckles. “Please, Mark, you sleep with a teddy bear, I think you can drop the whole I’m-impervious-to-emotion act now.”

Mark looks down at his feet. “Please don’t tell Chris and Dustin?” He places the teddy bear behind a pillow on his bed.

“’Course,” says Wardo, and he’s positively grinning.

--It’s not like a sleepover is just a girl thing or just a teenage thing. Sleepovers are for college males, too. So he and Mark stay up playing Halo and eating chocolate pudding, throwing darts at Mark’s wall and stumbling all over the bedroom after a few drinks. They burn popcorn in the microwave, eat what’s salvageable and try to throw the rest of the pieces into the trash can across the room, one-by-one, until it looks like it’s snowed popcorn all over Mark’s carpet. Around three in the morning when they’re tripping over their feet and almost in tears from drunken giggling, the only logical decision left for them to make is to go to bed.

If Mark wasn’t so drunk he’d catch onto Eduado’s obvious flirting. If he wasn’t so drunk he’d be freaking about where his bear is. If he wasn’t so drunk he’d probably do anything but blink and say “What?”

And if Eduardo wasn’t so drunk he probably wouldn’t be so blatant, but he says, “You can cuddle me instead.”

//

It’s not like Mark’s ever lied in his bed, all alone in the dark, held a pillow to his chest and tried to imagine it was a person. Not like he’s ever wrapped his arms and legs around one of those body pillows and imagined he could feel a breath, hear a heartbeat. Eduardo’s hair is softer than his teddy bear’s fur and his body’s warm to the touch. He’s all thin limbs and sharp angles and he has beer breath and his elbow hurts pressed against Mark’s chest, but he’s infinitely better than the teddy bear and yeah, Mark could get used to this.